AP Literature: Quiz 2 Terms Flashcards

6266429930	foil	a character whose qualities or actions serve to emphasize those of the protagonist by providing a strong contrast with them	0
6266429931	foot	the basic unit of rhythmic measurement in a line of poetry	1
6266429932	foreshadowing	the organization and presentation of events and scenes in a work of fiction or drama so that the reader or observer is prepared to some degree for what occurs later in the work	2
6266429933	frame narrative	the result of inserting one or more small stories within the body of a larger story that encompasses the smaller ones	3
6266429934	free verse	poetry that is free of rhyme and meter resembling natural speech	4
6266429935	gothic novel	a type of novel characterized by master, horror, and the supernatural, often with haunted castles, secret passageways, grisly visions, and all the paraphernalia of the tale of terror	5
6266429936	grotesque	a character or location that is irregular, extravagant or fantastic in form	6
6266429937	harmartia	the greek word for error or failure; slightly different from tragic flaw, which is a flaw of character	7
6266429938	heroic couplet	two end-stopped iambic pentameter lines rhymed aa, bb, cc, with the thought usually compete the two line unit	8
6266429939	hexameter	a line containing six feet	9
6266429940	homily	religious sermon or discourse	10
6266429941	hubris	the greek word for insolence or affront, applied to the arrogance or pride of the protagonist in a tragedy in which he or she defies moral laws in the prohibitions of the gods.	11
6266429942	humanism	a variety of ethical theory and practice that emphasizes reason, scientific inquiry, and human fulfillment in the natural world and often rejects the importance of belief in God.	12
6266429943	hyperbole	exaggeration for the sake of emphasis in a figure of speech not meant literally	13
6266429944	lamb	a metrical foot consisting of two syllables, an unaccented syllable followed by an accented ex: invade, today	14
6266429945	idyll	a poe or prose work describing an idealized rural life, pastoral scenes	15
6266429946	imagery	the making of pictures in words	16
6266429947	impressionism	a practice in literature that emphasizes immediate aspects of objects or actions without attention to details	17
6266429948	in medias res	latin for "the middle of things," the term describes the narrative practice of beginning a story in the middle of the action to involve the reader, and then sing one or more flashbacks to fill in what led up to that point	18
6266429949	internal rhyme	rhyme which comes within the line	19
6266429950	invective	direct denunciation or name-calling	20
6266429951	irony	the incongruity, or difference, between reality (what is) and appearance (what seems to be)	21
6266429952	jargon	the special language of a profession or group	22
6266429953	juxtaposition	the "side by side" comparison of two or more objects or ideals for the purpose of highlighting similarities or differences	23
6266429954	kenning	a metaphoric compound word or phrase used as a synonym for a common noun	24
6266429955	lampoon	a sharp, often virulent satire directed against an individual or institution	25
6266429956	limited pov	the narrator limits him;herself to a complete knowledge of one character in the story and tells us only what the one character feels, thinks, sees or hears.	26
6266429957	litotes	a figure of speech by which an affirmation is made indirectly by saying its opposite, usually with an effect of understatement	27
6266429958	loose sentence	sentence that follows normal patterns, subject then verb then modifiers	28
6266429959	lyric poetry	a usually short, personal poem expressing the poet's emotions and thoughts rather than telling a story	29
6266429960	malapropism	the comic substitution of one word for another similar in sound, but different in meaning. functions to make characters look ignorant or amusingly uneducated.	30
6266429961	masculine rhyme	one-syllable rhyme	31
6266429962	metaphor	one thing, idea, or action, is referred to by a word or expression normally denoting another thing, idea or action, so as to suggest some common quality shared by the two	32
6266429963	metaphysical poetry	intricate 17th century English poetry employing with and unexpected images	33
6266429964	meter	the pattern of measured sound-units recurring more or less regularly in lines of verse	34
6266429965	metonymy	figure of speech in which a representative term is used for a large idea	35
6266429966	mock epic	comically or satirically imitates the form and style of the epic, treating a trivial subject in a lofty manner	36
6266429967	mode	an employed method or approach, identifiable with a written work	37
6266429968	modernism	movement and emphasizing the desire to break away from established traditions	38
6266429969	mood	the prevailing emotional attitude in a literary work	39
6266429970	myth	an anonymous narrative, originating in the primitive folklore of a race or nation, that explains natural phenomena, or recounts the deeds of the heroes, passed on through oral tradition	40
6266429971	naturalism	style of writing that rejects idealized portrayals of life and attempts complete accuracy, disinterested objectivity, and frankness in depicting life as a brutal struggle for survival	41
6266429972	non sequitur	an inference or conclusion that does not follow established evidence or premises	42
6266429973	novel of manners	a novel, usually comical and satirical, whose characters and plot emerge from and are limited by the social customs, values, habits and mores of a particular social class in a particular time and place	43
6266429974	ode	an elaborately formal lyric poem, often in the form of a lengthy address to a person or abstract entity always serious and elevated in tone	44
6266429975	omniscient pov	the narrator knows all (godlike) and is free to tell us anything, including what the characters are thinking or feeling and why they act as they do	45
6266429976	onomatopeia	the use of words that seem to imitate the sounds they refer to	46
6266429977	oxymoron	a figure of speech in which two contradictory words or phrases are combined in a single expression	47
6266429978	parable	a brief tale intended to be understood as an allegory illustrating some lesson or moral	48
6266429979	paradox	a statement or expression so surprisingly self-contradictory as to provoke us into seeking another sense in which it would be true	49
6266429980	parody	a composition that ridicules another composition by imitating and exaggerating aspects of its content	50
6266429981	pastoral	a poem dealing with rural life	51
6266429982	pathetic fallacy	the presentation of nature as possessing human feelings	52